The Element of Lavishness
$28.93
- Paperback
392 pages
- Release Date
9 May 2003
Summary
An instant classic in the literature of friendship- the witty, affectionate 40-year correspondence between a great story-writer and her editor … pleasure and delight.In July 1938, William Maxwell, then twenty-nine years old and the acting poetry editor of The New Yorker, wrote to Sylvia Townsend Warner inviting her to send him verse. Miss Warner, forty-four and famous for her novel Lolly Willowes, had recently begun writing stories for the magazine, antic, inimitable sketches of English life…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781582432472 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1582432473 |
| Author: | William Maxwell |
| Publisher: | Counterpoint |
| Imprint: | Counterpoint |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 392 |
| Release Date: | 9 May 2003 |
| Weight: | 513g |
| Dimensions: | 215mm x 139mm |
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About The Author
William Maxwell
Sylvia Townsend Warner was a poet, short-story writer, and novelist, as well as an authority on early English music and a member of the Communist Party. Her first novel, Lolly Willowes, appeared in 1926 and was the first ever Book-of-the-Month Club selection. Mr. Fortune’s Maggot, her second, followed a year later. The Salutation was the title novella of a 1932 collection. Over the course of her long career, Sylvia Townsend Warner published five more novels, seven books of poetry, a translation of Proust, fourteen volumes of short stories, and a biography of T.H. White.William Keepers Maxwell Jr. was an American editor, novelist, short story writer, essayist, children’s author, and memoirist. He served as a fiction editor at The New Yorker from 1936 to 1975.
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